Sarah K. Schweiss, PharmD, BCACP, Associate Professor

Expertise

• Pharmacy Residency Education
• Resiliency and Wellbeing
• Comprehensive Medication Management
• Interprofessional Practice and Education
• Primary Care
• Diabetes

Awards & Recognition

• Professor of the Semester, Class of 2023, Spring 2021, Duluth Campus 
• U of MN PGY-1 Residency Program Service Award, 2020, U of M College of Pharmacy 
• Professor of the Semester, Class of 2022, Spring 2020, Duluth Campus 
• Merit Award for Excellence in Service, 2019, U of M College of Pharmacy
• Professor of the Semester, Class of 2021, Spring 2019, Duluth Campus
• Guest Lecturer of the Semester, Class of 2018, Spring 2017, Duluth Campus
• Professor of the Semester, Class of 2018, Spring 2016, Duluth Campus
• Merit Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2016, UofM College of Pharmacy
• Merit Award for Excellence in Course Teamwork, 2016, UofM College of Pharmacy
• Professor of the Semester, Class of 2017, Spring 2015, Duluth Campus
• Merit Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2014, UofM College of Pharmacy
• Merit Award for Innovations in Online Learning, 2014, UofM College of Pharmacy
• Merit Award for Course Directors with Highest Student Satisfaction, 2011, UofM College of Pharmacy
• Faculty Supervising Pharmacist of the Year, 2010-2011, Duluth Campus

Professional Associations

• American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP)
• American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP)
• Minnesota Pharmacists Association (MPhA)
• Duluth Area Pharmacists (DAP)

Research Interests

• Pharmacy Residency Education
• Resiliency and Wellbeing
• Comprehensive Medication Management
• Interprofessional Practice and Education
• Primary Care
• Diabetes

Teaching

Teaching Areas

• Diabetes
• Pharmaceutical Care Practice
• Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice
• PGY-1 Residency Education
• Pharmaceutical Care Skills

Courses

• PHAR 6754 Diabetes & Metabolic Syndrome Module
• PHAR 6226 Interprofessional Diabetes Experience
• PHAR 6770 Pharmaceutical Care Skills Lab V
• PHAR 7411-7413 Community Pharmacy & Ambulatory Care (CPAC) Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experience
• PHAR 7431/7432/7433 Patient Care Elective Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experience

Clinical

Clinics

St. Luke's Mount Royal Medical Clinic

Moon JY, Lounsbery JL, Schweiss S, Pittenger AL. Mapping the postgraduate year-one pharmacy accreditation standards to the core entrustable professional activities. Journal of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy. 2020; 3:81–86.

Swanson S, Schweiss S. Valuable Components of a Resilience Curriculum in a Postgraduate Year 1 (PGY-1) Pharmacy Residency Program. Currents in Pharmacy Teaching and Learning. Sept 2019, Vol 11 (9): 949-955.

Schweiss S, Pavelka A, Garza O, Moon J. Using a multisite and multi-health system pharmacy resident program model for care documentation quality improvement. Journal of the American Pharmacists Association. Aug 2019, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.japh.2019.07.013

Moon JY, Lounsbery JL, Schweiss S, Pittenger AL. Mapping the postgraduate year-one pharmacy accreditation standards to the core entrustable professional activities. Journal of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy. 2019, DOI: 10.1002/jac5.1125

Schweiss SK, Westberg SM, Moon JY, Sorensen TD. Expanding ambulatory care pharmacy residency education through a multi-site University-affiliated model. Journal of Pharmacy Practice. 2017, January 23. Available at: 10.1177/0897190016689368

Funk KA, Kolar C, Schweiss SK, Tingen J, Janke J. Experience with the script concordance test to develop clinical reasoning skills in pharmacy students. Currents in Pharmacy Teaching & Learning. Publication accepted and pending press August 2017.

Pittenger AL, Westberg S, Rowan M, Schweiss S. An Interprofessional Diabetes Experience to Improve Pharmacy and Nursing Students’ Competency in Collaborative Practice. American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education 2013, 77 (9): 197.

McNamara A, Janke K, Conway J, Schweiss S. Student Self-Ratings of Skill Acquisition from a Clinical Controversy Debate in a Third Year Pharmaceutical Care Lab. Innovations in Pharmacy 2013, 4:4. http://www.pharmacy.umn.edu/innovations/prod/group...

Huot KL, Lutfiyya MN, Akers MF, Amaro ML, Swanoski MT, Schweiss SK. A population-based cross-sectional study of health service deficits among U.S. adults with depressive symptoms. BMC Health Services Research 2013, 13:160. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC366256...

Tomaszewski D, Schweiss S, Hager K. Pharmacist-provided Ambulatory Patient Care: Progressing Pharmacy Practice and Preparing the Next Generation of Pharmacists. Journal of Experimental and Clinical Medicine 2012, 4 (4): 255-259.